Intelligence Quote by E B White Download Open image “An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.” — E B White ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Intelligence Service
Intelligence services all over the world, in order to retain their competitive edge, have to adapt or they won't survive. — Gina Haspel Copy Share Image
Intelligence services exist to do things that are illegal abroad. They exist to tell lies. — David Ignatius Copy Share Image
The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered… — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image
“Military intelligence was as nothing to military stupidity.” — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“You think there are no idiots in the intelligence business, that your superiors are all brilliant men who understand the game? [...] This business… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
“By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if… — E B White Copy Share Image
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard… — E B White Copy Share Image
Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot. — E B White Copy Share Image
The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty… — E B White Copy Share Image
Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar… — E B White Copy Share Image
If you can do anything for love there's no reason you can't do everything to someone you love. — Jayjay Guillermo Copy Share Image
Long before the 2016 presidential campaign, confidential sources had alerted me to longstanding misuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court system and the erosion… — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes and simultaneously… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Your mind has the intellect to lift the world, your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
An ex is an ex for a reason, they are an EXample of what you don't want in your future. — Alexia Copy Share Image
“When it comes to smarts, adolescents like Jesse have plenty. What they lack, however, are some of the brain-based skills that we all need… — Richard Guare Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
“A smart person learns from his mistakes, but a truly wise person learns from the mistakes of others.” — Ken Schramm Copy Share Image